(I mean, what pisses me off about that story I told on the other thread is... y'know, the actual band t-shirts I have got actual shit for, these bands were *not* even obscure or anything. Like, how fucking insulting is it to assume that a musician in a garage band has never heard the Stooges, y'know? That's what made it so over the top sexist.)
― Bipolar Sumner (Branwell Bell), Sunday, 23 February 2014 08:47 (ten years ago) link
Our Alice (probably about 10 then) saw a Ramones t-shirt in the window of Oxfam Reading, so she cadged the fiver off me and went in for it.
The Scottish guy who runs the shop was a little "Oh, you like the ramones then?" but she gave him chapter and verse about the first album and how "Rock and roll high school" was her favourite film when she was five, etc. He was very "Really? Wow, ok then"
Film That, Nick Hornby!
― Mark G, Sunday, 23 February 2014 08:55 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, what BB said..
There is that 'hey, justify yr t-shirt' edge maybe, but sometimes people have liked my t-shirt or asked about it and I daresay Alice would get people seeing her wearing it and just assume it's bought in topshop, but as she says "If it has Tommy's name it's probably not a real one"
― Mark G, Sunday, 23 February 2014 09:13 (ten years ago) link
Fuck bands, I'm now going to start wearing t-shirts with the names of heritage apple varieties.
YEAH MAN I JUST PLANTED A PEABODY NONESUCH. I bet you've never so much as eaten a pippin; get tae fuck.
― Bipolar Sumner (Branwell Bell), Sunday, 23 February 2014 14:33 (ten years ago) link
nice. " actually, it's a better cider apple..."
― 4. Nels Cline and My Uncle Eat Soup at Panera Bread (3:37) (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 23 February 2014 16:50 (ten years ago) link
ILM in 2007: Hey, let's post pix of bands/artists wearing band shirts of bands they don't much sound like! What fun!ILM in 2014: Let's discuss the philosophical expressions of wearing band shirts.
Fucking progress, man.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Sunday, 23 February 2014 16:56 (ten years ago) link
We have grown.
― Mark G, Sunday, 23 February 2014 16:57 (ten years ago) link
Your thread sucked. Now it is better. Deal with it.
― Bipolar Sumner (Branwell Bell), Sunday, 23 February 2014 17:04 (ten years ago) link
Go fuck yourself.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Sunday, 23 February 2014 17:09 (ten years ago) link
your favourite thread sucks
― soref, Sunday, 23 February 2014 17:09 (ten years ago) link
both of these are perfectly OK timewasting activities
― imago bantz and the deems context (DJ Mencap), Sunday, 23 February 2014 17:24 (ten years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/njsouthall/stevecardiacs.jpg
Steve from Embrace wearing a Cardiacs t-shirt. This is not unusual if you know him. He'll be wearing a Sleaford Mods t-shirt next.
I'm happy with the turn this thread has taken, btw.
― the drummer is a monster (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 24 February 2014 10:28 (ten years ago) link
https://24.media.tumblr.com/162a4a4ff880036768d90d62ae9fe10e/tumblr_n1indrqNAN1qaxybpo1_400.png
― Alex in NYC, Monday, 24 February 2014 19:56 (ten years ago) link
Demi does this a lot.http://i58.tinypic.com/2rr6nph.jpghttp://i62.tinypic.com/3358vvk.jpghttp://i57.tinypic.com/2ent108.jpghttp://i59.tinypic.com/2lvbel3.jpghttp://i59.tinypic.com/adks2s.jpg
― krankenhausen, Monday, 24 February 2014 23:31 (ten years ago) link
I know we had this conversation to death upthread but the ideas up there make cardamon want to do some typing, so.
There's something really refreshing about ppl who 'shouldn't' be wearing this or that band's shirt doing so. (Especially if it's a band I like; and even if I've superficially got over teenage rockism.) It's a corrective to the mystique around certain bands – the idea that they are unknown to a largely docile public, known only to an aware group of fans – and the status they have because of it.
It also breaks the false sense of community that can develop around a band, and reminds us that because this thing we like has such universal appeal it can't 'only' be for us or people similar to us.
I'm assuming here that the part of liking a piece of music that has to do with ingroup membership – the part where you're 'a person who likes the velvet underground', or whatever – is like a kind of boring encrustation that distracts from the actual sound hitting your ears, and that it's good to have your sense of affiliation with the people who made whatever music it might be shaken up.
― cardamon, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 01:18 (ten years ago) link
because our sense of affiliation is always false somehow
― cardamon, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 01:20 (ten years ago) link
Lol @ these Hollywood divas that don't get the exquisitely nuanced counterculture message of Love + Rockets, The Cure etc... yeh sarcasm etc....
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 02:28 (ten years ago) link
are the l-r ones supposed to be like exhibits for the prosecution, or how-to guides
― j., Tuesday, 25 February 2014 03:05 (ten years ago) link
That Love & Rockets shirt is cool
― Clarke B., Tuesday, 25 February 2014 05:54 (ten years ago) link
yeah I like how it states that she was gainfully employed in something that took place before she was born. kicks it up a notch
― imago bantz and the deems context (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 08:51 (ten years ago) link
that's a nice collection if they're not modern repros. i'm not invested in the authenticity of the person wearing the old-timey shirt, just the shirt itself. i always wanna look at the tags; if it's screen stars or spring ford then good job wearing that shirt, whoever you are.
also if a band has cool t-shirts that everybody likes but only a select few can appreciate the music maybe that's the band's fault one way or the other.
― slugbuggy, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 09:19 (ten years ago) link
or maybe the fact that the music is appreciated by a select few is the very thing that makes everybody like the t-shirt.
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 09:37 (ten years ago) link
i mean, there's nothing particularly interesting about that new order t-shirt, for example, except that it's a new order t-shirt.
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 09:40 (ten years ago) link
there's nothing particularly interesting about new order tbf
― we sold our Solsta for Rock'n'Roll (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 09:53 (ten years ago) link
some nasty bootleg t-shirt aesthetic going on there, takes me back to going round basingstoke market on a wet saturday - the smell of the fish stall, odd bits of rotting fruit and veg on the ground, dodging the strangely oily puddles in your soggy old trainers
― night boat to mega therion (NickB), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 10:23 (ten years ago) link
yeah they're mostly similarly shaped/ sized v-necks, probably all the same contemporary repro fashion company using the same blanks. assumed the new order at least was real for the reasons mentioned; there are more iconic images to reproduce that would sell better.
tru more often than not, but i was thinking about this idea:
Pop kids these days wear Motorhead or Ramones t-shirts the same way that pop kids wore Bauhaus or Siouxsie and the Banshees t-shirts in the 80s - sometimes, when I'd confront people on it, they'd admit that they weren't even aware that these images/logos were for bands - they just thought that they were logos in the same way as wearing an Ocean Pacific t-shirt was in the 80s (hey, look at me, I'm a cool surfer chick, even though I live 1000 miles from the nearest ocean).
or
Wear a Tshirt of some band you never heard and when quizzed on it talk at length about the sleeve designer and say are you a fan of their work then
the design aesthetic overlaps the music but also exists as its own thing, so the cure logotype or the pc&l cover or whatever become as zeitgeisty as a keith haring image and ends in themselves rather than just functioning as signifiers of a band and the community that surrounds it. i figure if a band exists as a purveyor of visual imagery as well as musical expressions then some people are just going to interact on that level and why wouldn't they if it's good design.
― slugbuggy, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 11:35 (ten years ago) link
The only thing I got out of this new shitshow is apparently a dude from Trans Am is in Baroness?? Holy shit
― sXe & the banshees (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 13:12 (ten years ago) link
The real problem with that Darkthrone-shirted keyboard dude above is the hat. It just... doesn't work. You're not allowed to wear a hat like that with a Darkthrone t-shirt.
― Clarke B., Tuesday, 25 February 2014 16:00 (ten years ago) link
I wanna see pictures of death-metal guys wearing things like Katy Perry shirts
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 18:57 (ten years ago) link
I can't find it now, but I remember having a old shot of Napalm Death pinned to the bulletin board at an old office wherein one of them was wearing a LUSH (as is Miki Berenyi/90's shoegaze) t-shirt.
― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 22:03 (ten years ago) link
Going back approx 15 years I remember being amused by Jim O'Rourke's Spice Girls t shirt.
not so much Gibby Haynes' Hanson shirt (kind of half expected it at that point)
― Master of Treacle, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 00:14 (ten years ago) link
what about a guy buying a donna summer bootleg wearing an emperor cap
― brimstead, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 00:21 (ten years ago) link
Shirt bands form musicians that sound nothing like them swearing.
― start making ₵€nt$ (rattled), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 01:06 (ten years ago) link
lol otm
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 01:22 (ten years ago) link
http://a.bimg.dk/node-images/152/4/620x411-c/4152476-nick-cave.jpg
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 05:46 (ten years ago) link
Bruno Mars' band sporting Misfits patch, Black Flag, Richard Hell & the Voidoids, CBGBs and one unidentified shirt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv4LS8cEXu8#aid=P7Yc2C87BIg
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 07:17 (ten years ago) link
http://oi58.tinypic.com/2rr6nph.jpg
At a quick glance I thought this was a Sandman t-shirt! Did the band copy the comic, or the other way around? (Yeah, I know Cure existed long before Sandman, but in this particular image the singer dude looks almost exactly like the protagonist of the comic.)
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 07:30 (ten years ago) link
Except he's fat and Morpheus wasn't.
― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 08:28 (ten years ago) link
To actually answer your question, Fat Bob has looked like that since about 1983.
― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 08:30 (ten years ago) link
urine sample looks a bit cloudy
― night boat to mega therion (NickB), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 08:36 (ten years ago) link
tbh Bob looks like Jaz Coleman in a wig on that shirt
― the immortal jellyfish will never die (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 08:39 (ten years ago) link
I was thinking Denis Healey.
― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 08:41 (ten years ago) link
bernard cribbins as john cooper clark
― night boat to mega therion (NickB), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 09:00 (ten years ago) link
Well yeah, I know what he looks like, but I meant that particular image in the t-shirt. A drawn image with black eyes + completely white skin + blue robes makes him look exactly like Morpheus. What year is the t-shirt from?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 09:31 (ten years ago) link
1375
― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 09:55 (ten years ago) link
2015.
― the drummer is a monster (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 10:03 (ten years ago) link
69
― thuggish ruggish brony (contenderizer), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 10:09 (ten years ago) link
It's super easy to trade up towards ever-more-rocking and authentic stuff like punk and metal. I would also like to see some punk or metal dude wearing a 80s Madonna tour shirt or something.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 19:04 (ten years ago) link
There's a photo above (or there was at one time) of the band Death where one of the guys is wearing a Blondie shirt.
And a video of that noted death metaller Bob Weir wearing a Madonna shirt.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 19:06 (ten years ago) link
Blondie is a punk band, doesn't count.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 19:07 (ten years ago) link